Greenblatt, Alan. "Future of the Music Industry ." 2003. CQ Researcher. November 13,2008 <**http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/search**.>.
~availability of free music has negatively affected sales of cds -BD
  • cd sales down at (+/-) 15% since 1999 -BD
  • cd sales have been declining steeply since their peak in 2000 -BD
  • rap artist LL cool J opposes illegal downloading of music-BD
  • he said that a majority of artist want to be copensated for there work.-BD
  • napster began in 1999 as free music, it was forced to close, then reopened as low-fee-BD
  • other sites are Kazaa, Grokster and Morpheus-BD
  • these can reamin onlie because they do not have direct control over shared files-BD
  • artists should be cophensated-BD
  • low cost is better than no cost-BD
  • youth say they will continue illegaly downloading because CD's are over priced-BD
  • most youth say that artist are all rich, what does it matter to them if they loose a few songs-BD
  • they face competitive pressure from illegal downloads and ligal purchase of music from iTunes -BD
  • computer users illegally download over 2.6 billion copyrighted files (mostly recordings) every month -BD
  • "3-5 million people are downloading music and violating copyright law...our sales have dropped from $15 billion to $11 billion in the last 4 years." ~Mitch Bainwol (chairman of the RIAA) -BD
  • "Problems of the music industry will soon be of all copyright holders"-TW
  • Musics pirating stiflies the careers of up-and-comming muscians-TW
  • root cause a drastic decline in record sales is astronomical rate of music piracy.-TW
  • computer users illegally download more than 2.6 billion compywritted files every month-TW
  • one in ever fiveamericans share music-TW
  • artist and copywrited owners deserve to be fairly compensated-tw
  • studies indicaed that home taping did not hurt sales, since people were making copies of records they owned for convence-tw
  • Audio home recording act exempted many forms of recording, invluding that done on computers, which turned out to bewhere the real action would occur-tw
  • a federal court ruled in april that because grokster and the other companies do not have control over the files being shared through their system-tw
  • the digital millenium copywrite act of 1998 gives copyright holders the right to subpoena information about the internet users who are allegedly infringing on or voilating that copyright.-tw
  • copyrighted infringment not only hurt notonly welthy artists and greedy record labels but record store owners truckers and everyone in the magical chain that brings music to the public-tw
  • due yo piracy, best selling album sales have been shrinking dramatically-tw
  • the riaa can sue as much as 150,000 per illegally downloaded song-tw
  • 2000 individual have been sued by the riaa for illegaly downloading as of march 2004-tw
  • piracy affects the entire music industry-tw
  • young consumers are more likly to illegally download music-BD
  • only 12 cents from each dollar is given to the artist for records sold, most of the money goes to record company and other sites-BD
  • music wasn't over priced untill free was an option-BD
  • legally downloading music cost a dollr while an album costs 10 -BD
  • music pricing is elastic, lower prics and more will sell-BD
  • annual sales dropped from more than 100 million durring the late 1920's to 6 millions in the year of1932- BD
  • Radios and casset players made muci portable in 1979- BD
  • a record company sold 475 million albums while 455million was taped at home-BD
  • young people love the immediat gradifiaction-Bd
  • the ability to mix up tracks from differnt albums is appealing-BD
  • soon CD's will no longer be needed-BD
  • society is shifting from the pysical to the file avalibilty-BD
  • digital is seeling better that the pysical thing
  • retailers are being forced to cut prices to keep up with the cost of free-BD
  • sales slipping are on the rise, dark tike for the music industry-BD


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"Is Piracy REally Killing the Music Industry?." www.roughlydrafted.com. 11/13/08 <http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/708F20CD-E67D-45C7-AF95-3E1A6AC07C37.html>.
  • * many music industry trade groups claim that piracy has a negative effect on their industry-DG
    * the music industry believes that unauthorized buying and selling of music is killing sales growth and profits-DG
    * because music costs more to produce, the price of CD's has risen-DG
    * the only solution for the label's is to lock down music so it can't be shared, , prosecute file traders, and institute market pricing for music-DG
    * critics of the RIAA ar the "free and open software crowd", people who don't want to pay full price for music, people who don't wand to be restricted in buying music, and companies who don't benefit from the market price of music-DG
    * the most critical are those who create open source sorfware-DG
    * these critics are against DRM and would rather see musicians be supported my donations and sponsoring companies-DG
    * other avid critics are kids who don't want to pay full price for music-DG
    * the riaa has been targeting these types of people and creates "fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the safety of trading files"-DG
    * it costs many thousands of dollars to produce and single album and millions to create a movie-DG
    * "If the resources to produce music were not scarce, there would be no American Idol or Star Search, and the planet would have 6 billion rock stars."-DG
    * the DRM stops counterfeiting and protects the value of currency-DG
    * governments enact punishment for counterfeiters, develope anti-counterfeiting methods, and police their money supplies-DG
    * the DRM prevents copying of music, creates copyright laws, penalties, and sues those who evade thesee laws-DG
    * the main difference between counterfeiting and music pirating is that only the counterfeiter benefits from counterfeiting, while more people benefit from pirating-DG
    * the real customers are the people who buy the music, not the people who pirate music or create open source software-DG
    * these people are taken for granted by record labels who use threats and lawsuits to intimidate them-DG
    * if record labels want to increase their profits, they need to create an incentive-DG
    * Apple makes very little money off of iTunes but isn't interested in raising their music prices-DG
    * Apple wants to expand the music sold to expand its TV and movie sales-DG
    * alternatives to iTunes have failed because they threaten with DRM-DG
    * CD sales increased from 1995-2000 but fell between 2000 and 2005 and the labels blame piracy-DG
    * DVD's, videogames,and other entertainment have given people other things to spend their money on, other than music-DG
    * question arrises as to whether the riaa expects to expand their CD sales when music can now be downloaded over the internet-DG
    * in 2005, the % of downloaded music jumped from its former 1% to 6% of the market-DG
    * music labels killed the record stores my making popular music unaffordable-DG
    * Apple sales are doing better because of their consistant prices and selection-DG
    * "If the music indusry wants to survivve, it needs to sell music rather than valify itself as a hostile authority, price itself out of the market, and insist upon excessive DRM."-DG
    * label's most effective strategies may be to destroy online services by dumping downloads into them, focus on efforts on prosecuting physical piracy, and attack the piracy of criminal organizations (such as Pirate Bay and the Russian mafia)-DG
    * Pirate Bay sold $120,000 in ads for its space in a month and none of the money went to artists, technicians, or labels-DG
    * the music industry sees no difference between piracy and file sharing and sees traded songs as potentially unsold CDs-DG
    * DVD sales in 2002 jumped 60% to $8.7 billion-DG
    * Harvard University and the University of North Carolina did a study on file sharing and reported a 1.75 million traded songs over a 17 week period compared to actual album sales-DG
    * the recording industry can get more out of making CDs and online purchases appealing than by raising prices and suing children for pirating-DG

Clark, Charles. "Clashing over copyright."1996. CQ resercher. November 13,2008http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/search..
  • in 1995 losses in motion picture selling due to illegal downloading was 1.54 billion dollars-JA
  • in 1995 losses in recods in music sales due to illegal downloading was 1.04 billion-JA
  • for computer sales 2.85billion-JA
  • books .592-JA
  • total losses 6.03-JA

"What is piracy." 2005. Indian Music Industry. November 14,2008http://www.indianmi.org/whatispiracy.htm


~Piracy is the unauthorized duplication of an original recording for commercial gain without the consent of the rights owner-BD

~packaging of pirated copies is different from the original-BD
~usually compilations such as greatest hits, or a specific genre-BD
~Three kinds of illegal activity-counterfeiting, Pirating and bootlegging-BD
~counterfeit is the unauthorized copying of an official trademark-BD
~pirate is unauthorized duplication of music for commercial gain-BD
~bootlegging, duplication or sale of a performance like a live concert or broadcast without permission-BD
~piracy had several varieties-BD
~End User piracy-BD
~is copying same software to more than one computer-BD
~loaning your software to someone who can make a copy-BD
~copying and selling software-BD
~Internet Piracy-BD
~distribution of copyrighted software via internet of bullintin board sites that are set up for it-BD
~reseller piracy-BD
~creating a compilation of songs from CD’s and converting to mp3’s doesn’t not in itself constitute infringement-BD
~infringement occurs when you facilitate the distribution of files-BD
~permission is always required unless use meets criteria of fair use-BD
~improper use of a copyrighted trademark-BD

Bennet, Mike. "The great Pirating Debate." Time 10 2008: 1.

~Piracy deprives artists of income-TW
~executives will not sign up new acts unless they are making good money out of already established acts-TW
~being sold a second rate service at high cost-TW
~downloading poor copies of a CD and paying the same for it is and insult to peoples’ intelligence-TW
~keep the prices low or don’t sell it cheap-TW
~acceptable to keep copies in car-TW
~acceptable to make MP3 CD to play in car-TW
~acceptable to make friends CD’s they think I will like knowing that if I like it I will buy it-TW


RoseFrank,"Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs"Wired13.03.08:Wired.com11/14/08http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/03/music_levy.

~failed to stop piracy buy sueing internet users-TW
~Idea is to collect fee from service providers-TW
~put to pool to compensate songwriters, preformers, publishers and music labels-TW
~Cd sales cratering and online sales overwhelmingly dominated by singles-TW
~antipiracy efforts appear more and more futile-TW
~20% of us internet userd downloaded music illegally last year-TW
~many companies are very open to new file sharing ideas-TW

"The Law"www.riaa.com .www.riaa.com, 11/14/08 **http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_online_the_law**.

~copy right law protects value of creative work-DG
~make illegal copies it is stealing, breaking the law-BD
~fbi warnings on movies-DG
~federal law provides several crime penalties from piracy-BD
~people should find out about FBI warning laws-DG
~what it says and means-BD
~how you could be breaking the law-DG
~how sever the penalties can be-BD
~what the courts say-DG
~what is okay, what is not-BD
~when making unorthorized copies of copywirted materal your stealing-DG
~when you illicity male or distribute recordings you are taking from owner with out permission-BD
~digiatl info can seem as free as air-DG
~copywrite law protects unorthorized duplication of recordings-BD
~permission is needed-DG
~the courts say it is against the law to upload nad to copy copywrited music-BD
~p2p is infrindgement of law and is a crime-DG
~five years and 250,000 dollars-BD
~file sharing networks`DG
~infringment by tranfering cpoywrited music usung IM services-BD
~CD burner, make cd for all your friends-DG
~minimal penalty is $750 per song-BD
~having the hardware to illegaly copy, doesnt make it right-DG

Moore,Charles."is piracy stealing".AppleLinks.11/16/08**http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/pirate.shtml**.

~2/3 of internet users who download music are unconcerned about violating copywrite laws-BD
~29% say they do care-BD
~6% have no opinion-BD
~number of downloaders who say the dont care had increased from 61% to 67%-BD
~young adults are least likly to express concern about copywrited fils-BD
~those aged 30 to 64 are more likely to express concern-BD
~80% of full time students and almost 3/4 of part time students say they dont care weather the files they share are copywrited or not-BD
~america's attitude towards copywrited material online had remained dismissive-BD
~it isnt that people dontl know it is illegal, they just dont care-BD
~americans find online stealing more 'slippery' than physical stealing-BD
~one offence is enough-BD
~many artist are harmed by music piracy-BD
~copywrite laws are placed to protect the artist-BD
~copywrite laws have been around for a long time-BD
~the fight is about money, power and control-BD
~the original cpyright law gave the copyright holder permission to print, publish abd sell a copyrighted work-BD
~atfirst there were no signs of the copyright holder reguarding the public preforamce of teh work-BD
~any unarthorized copy of any copyrighted work is unacceptable-BD
~the american people are file downlaoeds and file swapers-BD
~the 20th century copyright law is no longer working or workable-
~copyright law should be changed to secure copyrights holder more-BD
~the real issue is to find ways to be sure the owner will be conphensated-BD
~more cophensationa dnprotection is needed-BD

Frequently Asked Questions. April 5, 2000 Music CD Industry. November 17, 2008 http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm01/piracyfaq.html.
  • music piracy is the illegal duplication and distribution of sound recordings in the forms of pirate recordings, bootleg recordings, counterfeit recordings, and online piracy-DG
  • pirate recordings are the unauthorized recordings of only the sound of previous recordings (doesn't include packaging)-DG
  • bootleg recordings are the unauthorized recordings of music on the radio, TV, or a live concert-DG
    • counterfeit recordingsare the unauthorized recordings of prerecorded sound as well as original work and packaging-DG
    • online piracy is the unauthorized sound recordings of internet sites-DG
    • worldwide, the music industry loses about $5 billion to music piracy each year and the US loses about $1 billion -DG
    • customers are hurt by piracy b/c it increases the price of average music-DG
    • artists, musicians, songwriters, and producers are all hurt b/c they don't get the fees they've earned and 95% of artists depend on their salaries to make a living-DG
    • record companies are hurt b/c 85% of companies don't make back the profits they've earned from piracy-DG
    • most pirates copy the "hits", meaning whatever is on the top of the charts is more succeptable to piracy-DG
    • many say that if bootleg recordings aren't released to the public, then they can't be pirated but the performers have the right to control content and distribution of their music-DG
    • sampling the two separate uses of music. First, the artist will use part of another song for their own benefit. Second, a consumer downloads a part of the recorded music-DG
    • because of sampling, disk jockeys are not exempt from copywrite laws and each song used must be authorized by the artist-DG
    • you can tell if music has been pirated if...the packaging is blurry or has bad color-DG
    • ...the package or disk has type-o's -DG
    • ...the price is much lower than retail value-DG
    • ...if you're buying the music from a flea market, street vendor, a swap meet, or in a concert parking lot-DG
    • ...the record label is missing or the company is unfamiliear to you-DG
    • ...it has cheeply made insert cards-DG
    • ...the sound is poor quality-DG
    • CDR's are CD's onto which you can record music. the riaa confiscated 23,858 illegal CDR's last year-DG

Gilmore, Armstrong, Heath, Kerrie. "War on music piracy." 2008. smh.com.au. November 14, 2008<http://www.smh.com.au/articles

Goverment considering the three-strikes policy- JA
first a warning-JA
second offenders internet access being suspended-JA
third cancel offenders internet access-JA
Policy would mirror legislation introduced in britain-JA
Action was taken to remove illegal downloading of tracks from blogs, cyberlocker, Bittorrent but it has failed-JA
Music files sitting on individual's computers are harder to remove or stop them from being shared-JA
Penalties include $60,500 for individuals-JA
$302,500 for corporations and 5 years of jail-JA